Alas Dave You merely confirm the main difference between two organisations: Scouts and the ATC.
The Scouts have quality leadership and 'can doers' at the top, and the ATC has Facebook Fanatics and Pension toppers in the system.
Both organisations have large numbers of Volunteers at the coal face, however the ATC has been heavily crushed to death by the Volunteers being badly let down by those mandated to support it. The simple fact is that the more the full time RAF became involved with the organisation (a useful facility in a shrinking RAF) the less capable it became. The effect of more paperwork and an ever increasing culture of returns, box ticking, and risk assessments for everything has just chocked the organisation to death, with the resulting drop in numbers. And what did all this paperwork lead to :- NOTHING as they could not even keep a fleet of Gliders airworthy.
If the people at the top had any actual ability or leadership then this would never had happened, but they are too busy with papering over the obvious with Celeb endorsements and their facebook fancies. The organisation has being going downhill for many years and those at the top must bear the responsibility for that.